Sorry for late reply. I don't understand what could cause this error.
You're not doing anything out of the ordinary and the qualifier is
valid. Would it be possible for you to provide a sample that reproduces
the problem that I could look at?

A full stacktrace might be helpful if that's possible to obtain.

- thomas

On 2012-12-31 18:26, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Hi
>
> when I run buckminster headless qualifier replacement takes place
> automatically with something like
>
> 1.0.0.201212301738
>
> in the IDE I use a properties file which contains
>
> qualifier.replacement.*=generator:buildTimestamp
> generator.buildTimestamp.format=yyyyMMddHHmm
>
> but when I run site.p2 action in the IDE I get an error
>
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException:
> <myeclipsedir>/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/557/1/.cp/org/eclipse/buckminster/pde/antscripts/build.xml:300:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Format
> "format(n[.n=0;[.n=0;[.S=[A-Za-z0-9_-];='';]]])" was unable to parse
> 1.0.0.201212311725
>
> am I doing something wrong?
>

On 01/07/2013 01:30 PM, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
>
> Sorry for late reply. I don't understand what could cause this error.
> You're not doing anything out of the ordinary and the qualifier is
> valid. Would it be possible for you to provide a sample that reproduces
> the problem that I could look at?
>
> A full stacktrace might be helpful if that's possible to obtain.
>
> - thomas
>
> On 2012-12-31 18:26, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> when I run buckminster headless qualifier replacement takes place
>> automatically with something like
>>
>> 1.0.0.201212301738
>>
>> in the IDE I use a properties file which contains
>>
>> qualifier.replacement.*=generator:buildTimestamp
>> generator.buildTimestamp.format=yyyyMMddHHmm
>>
>> but when I run site.p2 action in the IDE I get an error
>>
>> org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException:
>> <myeclipsedir>/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/557/1/.cp/org/eclipse/buckminster/pde/antscripts/build.xml:300:
>>
>> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Format
>> "format(n[.n=0;[.n=0;[.S=[A-Za-z0-9_-];='';]]])" was unable to parse
>> 1.0.0.201212311725
>>
>> am I doing something wrong?
>>
>
>
>> cheers
>> Lorenzo
>>
>